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And how does that stop sybil attacks?

It's not different from no mining at all - whoever can flood the network faster wins (with signed blocks or output guesses)

Fastmail does put envelope address into 'X-Delivered-to' header, GMail puts it into 'Delivered-To'.

Actual delivery address is part of SMTP envelope, which is not part of delivered mail. While it usually correlates with headers in actual message, it is not required (that's how BCC works).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#...

See lines with 'RCTP TO'. That's where your address was.

Counter question. How is this any different from videos of beheadings by ISIS and skinnings by narco cartels?

It is supposed to induce terror and thus compliance in population.

>incompatible with the idea of democracy

So is Belarusian regime.

>suck at PR

Do concentration camp administration suck at PR? Beating random prisoners to death for no reason is quite efficient way of keeping people under control.

But if Lukashenka gets torn to bloody pieces by the crowd - then yes, he did suck at PR indeed.

>even secret police officers have to make a soup of their boots

So what are Usmanov, Prokhorov, Potanin, etc? Are they oppressed opposition, or are they eating boots too?

>bayonet in his pooper

While executions of government officials would be extremely entertaining and spirit raising sight, such revolutionary events will lead to much worse outcome in long term than reformation.

>All corrupt heads of Ex-Union countries hold personal accounts on a very tight leash

Ex-Union countries are very different. Claim that corrupt heads of 6M people/43G$ GDP Turkmenistan and 145M/4328G$ Russia are identical is a strong one. Other than size of economy, they are different in that most of them became authoritarian states right after gaining independence, while Russia had about decade of mostly working democracy.

>this

Elections. Corrupted to the point of uselessness, but they are still run, as government derives it's legitimacy from them, rather than from leader's charisma or ideology.

>Call things their their names

Sometimes it makes sense to distinguish between kinds of shit. Especially if shit is only material you have.

>This is a 1 man regime, possibly 2-3-4 men regime.

It is gross oversimplification. It's basically political/special service elite (bound with personal loyalty) and thick layer of rent seekers (from oil & gas billionaires to countless bureaucratic sinecures).

Even if we assume that all power is indeed in hands of one person, who will gain power once he is killed and current system collapses? Ones who can act fast and are not hindered by too much reflection or morals: junta, blackshirts and organized crime.

>run out of money

No. Point is making desired behaviour more profitable than current behaviour for regime stakeholders. When risk coming from asset freeze becomes larger than risk from change in government - system will start to transform.

>holds passwords

That doesn't work that way. It's actually opposite - wealth is often spread among many loyal figureheads, with actual beneficiary holding nothing on his name.

>Norko

Russian regime is as far from classic totalitarian one as it is from european democracy. Probably even further, as it's basically democracy corrupted to the point of switching to new aggregate state.

>rocket killing

Worst possible choice. Even without taking international costs, it will be best day for propaganda and thus elite. And perfect feed for ultra-nationalistic movements - so even if manages to produce change in government, it will be second Iran, not second Poland.

>seizure of assets

Best one. After enough mansions are seized and comfortable retirements destroyed, couple of skulls will get caved by a snuffbox and all the geopolitics garbage will be thrown out of the window. With following power struggle, that might even be second chance to form sane government.

That this because regulation purpose is not fixing a problem, but making government look good.

Many people does not think in terms of 'flow of foreign capital', but in 'greedy exporters are hiking prices to get rich'. So forbidding exports and fixing prices look good to them (especially with propaganda support), while macroeconomic effects will go unnoticed.

(from experience in Russia, but Argentina looks quite similar in political structure)

Because there are no successful businessman, politicians or investment bankers in their social circle.

Soviet book collecting was often form of conspicuous consumption - it demonstrated owner's ability to acquire goods - so book value was objective, established by society; while tsundoku seems to be driven by subjective value, placed by owner - making it closer to mild hoarding.